V. I. Lenin

Among the Newspapers and Magazines (June 29, 1906)

Written:Written on June 29 (July 12), 1906Published:Published on June 30, 1905 in the newspaperEkhoNo. 8.

      Printed from theEkhotext.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 41,

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ThenewspaperMysl{1}carries an interesting “proscription list” of the
Yaroslavl Administration. Dozens of per sons (56 in the town of Yaroslavl
and 17 in the town of Rybinsk) are marked off in it as “suspects”, and a
secret report requests the police department for “appropriate
instructions”. In this connection,Myslsays:

“Leteveryone pass judgement. He that hath ears to hear,
   let him hear. He that bath reason to understand, let him understand. The
   police department has now conceived a grandiose operation for the
   simultaneous radical and “final liquidation” of a number of organisations
   over the entire Russian land through a massive “seizure”, unprecedented
   in scale, of persons suspected of adherence to the Socialist-Revolutionary
   and Social-Democratic parties, and the peasant and the railway unions. For
   that purpose, the department has demanded full lists of suspected persons
   from the local authorities. These “proscription lists”, concentrated in
   one place, by now contain almost ten thousand names of persons over whom
   arrest hangs like the sword of Damocles.”

“Leteveryone pass judgement. He that hath ears to hear,
   let him hear. He that bath reason to understand, let him understand. The
   police department has now conceived a grandiose operation for the
   simultaneous radical and “final liquidation” of a number of organisations
   over the entire Russian land through a massive “seizure”, unprecedented
   in scale, of persons suspected of adherence to the Socialist-Revolutionary
   and Social-Democratic parties, and the peasant and the railway unions. For
   that purpose, the department has demanded full lists of suspected persons
   from the local authorities. These “proscription lists”, concentrated in
   one place, by now contain almost ten thousand names of persons over whom
   arrest hangs like the sword of Damocles.”

Andso, the government is hatching another plot. Military preparations
against the people, “measures” to dissolve the Duma, and lists containing
10,000 names for arrest! As in October-December, the government has made a
“dead set” at the revolution, utilising the relative freedom to lure out
and destroy thousands of more fighters for freedom.

Letone and all, therefore, be at their post. The government is
prepared—the revolutionary people must also be prepared.

{1}Mysl(Thought)—a political and literary daily, the legal
organ of the S. R. Party, published in St. Petersburg from June 20 (July 3)
to July 6 (19), 1906, in place ofGolos(Voice), which had been
dosed down. Fifteen issues were published.

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